There is a neat little tool called IExpress that has been around for a long time. IExpress creates a self-extracting EXE from a specified set of files. The resultant executable can be configured to prompt the user (“Are you sure you...

I have been working at Microsoft nearly five months already. It is hard to believe how time flies! Yesterday a colleague made the comment “Your blog…what happened? Since you joined MS…no more blog?“ I didn’t intend to go...

I am working on a project that is turning out the builds, sometimes with just a single change in an assembly (we are in bug fixing mode). Doing a full install each time is tedious given that it is a server application with a Windows service, several...